A repetition of the same experimental measurement, The replicate can either be technical, where the same biological extract is analyzed twice, eg. by using the same mRNA for multiple microarrays; or it can be a biological replicate, when for example sample material is harvested from different individuals grown under the same conditions.

A genetic mechanism in which double-stranded RNA is cleaved into small fragments and acts a signal to either initiate the degradation of a complementary messenger RNA or to interfere with its translation.

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